A British convert to Islam suspected of trying to reach Syria on her twin sister’s passport was stopped last year while returning from the warzone with her baby son, The Times can reveal. Jamila Henry, 21, was arrested yesterday at Luton airport on suspicion of preparing for acts of terrorism

A British Muslim convert accused of trying to join Islamic State in Syria is thought to have been travelling on her twin sister’s passport. A photograph of Jamila Henry, 21, in custody in Turkey was released by local authorities after she was arrested at a bus stop in Ankara. Miss Henry’s twin

A 21-year-old woman became the fourth Briton in less than a week last night to be detained by the Turkish authorities on suspicion of trying to reach Syria and join Islamic State. The woman, identified as JNH, was detained at a bus terminal in Ankara by specialist police units that identify any

Pupils at a school attended by one of the three teenagers allegedly stopped from travelling to Syria last week were told recently that Friday prayers must be taken only in English amid fears of student radicalisation. New rules, including the requirement that a teacher must always be present during

Mainstream religion is not exciting enough to combat the draw of jihad and of radical ideologies, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said. The Most Rev Justin Welby told a gathering of faith leaders that part of the problem was that too often discussions involved “nice people talking to nice people

Three runaway schoolgirls who have been missing for nearly a month have arrived in the de facto Islamic State capital, it has been claimed. Amira Abase, 15, Shamima Begum, 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, travelled by bus from Istanbul airport to the border with Syria and were yesterday said to be

A list has been discovered in the bedroom of one of the three British girls who are believed to have fled to Syria to join Islamic State (Isis) detailing the items they required for their trip, it emerged last night. Amira Abase, 15, Shamima Begum, 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, are believed to be

Mohammed Emwazi kidnapped two schoolboys at gunpoint and ordered them to strip to their underwear before dumping them on a motorway, it was claimed yesterday. The Islamic State terrorist is said to have organised the revenge attack after his brother and a friend were beaten up by a gang at the

The family of Mohammed Emwazi are being guarded by armed police in a security operation costing more than £5,000 a day after being moved to a secret location funded by the taxpayer. His mother, brother and three of his sisters fled the family home in northwest London two weeks ago when they

Mohammed Emwazi’s family lived in Britain at the taxpayers’ expense for at least 20 years after fleeing their native Kuwait and being taken in as asylum seekers. The cost of accommodating the Islamic State butcher’s family in addresses in one of London’s most sought-after areas has cost hundreds